{
    "term": "dignity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a calm and serious manner that deserves respect",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She accepted the criticism with quiet dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He brings a quiet dignity to the role."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "great", "calm"],
                "verb + dignity": ["have", "possess", "keep"],
                "preposition": [
                    "below somebody’s dignity",
                    "beneath somebody’s dignity",
                    "with dignity"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "an air of dignity",
                    "a lack of dignity",
                    "a loss of dignity"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of being given honour and respect by people",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the dignity of work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We felt that the way she was treated was lacking in dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Slavery destroys human dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "great", "calm"],
                "verb + dignity": ["have", "possess", "keep"],
                "preposition": [
                    "below somebody’s dignity",
                    "beneath somebody’s dignity",
                    "with dignity"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "an air of dignity",
                    "a lack of dignity",
                    "a loss of dignity"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a sense of your own importance and value",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a strong sense of dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These people have enormous dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Money means independence and personal dignity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We all want to maintain our dignity in old age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact."
                },
                {
                    "text": "With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "great", "calm"],
                "verb + dignity": ["have", "possess", "keep"],
                "preposition": [
                    "below somebody’s dignity",
                    "beneath somebody’s dignity",
                    "with dignity"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "an air of dignity",
                    "a lack of dignity",
                    "a loss of dignity"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "below what you see as your own importance or worth",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to demand to be treated with the respect that you think that you deserve",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our teacher never stands on her dignity with us, but treats us all as friends and colleagues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was never one to stand on her dignity."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪɡnəti/",
                "audio": "di/dignity/dignity__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪɡnəti/",
                "audio": "di/dignity/dignity__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French dignete, from Latin dignitas, from dignus ‘worthy’."
}